Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals); 26 July (final)
Competitors	44 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:53.33
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:12.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.08	Q
2	4	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.89	Q
3	5	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.13	Q
4	4	8	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.55	Q NR
5	5	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.90	Q
6	4	4	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.94	Q
7	3	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:55.96	Q
8	3	5	Jack Conger	United States	1:56.00	Q
9	4	7	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:56.07	Q
10	4	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.20	Q
11	5	3	Pace Clark	United States	1:56.23	Q
12	4	6	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.52	Q
13	3	6	David Morgan	Australia	1:56.57	Q
14	3	7	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:56.60	Q NR
15	5	2	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.61	Q
16	4	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.71	Q
17	5	7	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.75
18	3	2	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.76
19	4	1	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:57.37
20	3	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:57.96
21	3	3	Li Zhuhao	China	1:58.63
22	5	8	Wang Zhou	China	1:58.88
23	3	1	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:59.02
24	5	1	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:59.07
25	5	9	Patrick Stäber	Austria	1:59.10
26	3	0	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:59.41
27	3	9	Etay Gurevich	Israel	1:59.87
28	5	0	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:59.91
29	2	2	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:00.53
30	2	4	Sajan Prakash	India	2:00.57
31	2	1	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	2:00.63	NR
32	4	0	Tomáš Havránek	Czech Republic	2:01.50
33	4	9	Kim Moon-kee	South Korea	2:02.31
34	2	8	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	2:01.44
35	2	7	Chou Wei-liang	Chinese Taipei	2:01.49
36	2	5	Michael Gunning	Jamaica	2:01.73
37	2	3	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	2:03.10
38	2	6	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:03.19
39	1	3	Nguyễn Ngọc Huỳnh	Vietnam	2:03.57
40	1	4	Rami Anis	FINA Independent Athletes	2:06.02
41	2	9	Matthew Lowe	Bahamas	2:06.29
42	1	6	Mikhail Umnov	Malta	2:06.45
43	2	0	Jeerakit Soammanus	Thailand	2:07.30
44	1	5	Duran Alfonso	Honduras	2:12.21

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 19:04.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.03	Q
2	6	Jack Conger	United States	1:55.30	Q
3	3	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.57	Q
4	5	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.58	Q
5	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:55.84
6	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.59
7	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.85
8	1	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:57.60

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.22	Q
2	6	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.98	Q
3	3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.09	Q
4	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.39	Q
5	7	Pace Clark	United States	1:55.82
6	2	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:55.84
7	8	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.33
8	1	David Morgan	Australia	1:57.66

The final was held on 26 July at 18:01.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:53.33
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	1:53.72
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.21
4	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.73
5	2	Jack Conger	United States	1:54.88
6	1	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.04
7	7	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.30
8	8	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.98